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Document 9280

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A yearbook containing the Police Commissioner's speech before Dutch-Americans.
Book signed: "Theodore Roosevelt" inside front cover. Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, 1896. 241p, 7½x11½. The Knickerbocker Press, New York: 1896. This hardcover book was given to attendees of the 11th Annual Dinner of the Holland Society of New York at the Savoy Hotel in New York City on January 15, 1896. The society's members were of Dutch ancestry as was Roosevelt. His address to the gathering, as well as the audience reaction, is printed on pages 22-27. In part: "A nation must have laws that are honestly and fearlessly administered, and a nation must be ready, in time of need, to fight (applause), and we men of Dutch descent have here to-night these gentlemen of the same blood as ourselves who represent New York so worthily on the bench, and a Major-General of the Army of the United States. (Applause)...The prime virtue of the Hollander here in America and the way in which he has most done credit to his stock as a Hollander, is that he has ceased to be a Hollander and has become an American, absolutely. (Great applause.) We are not Dutch-Americans. We are not 'Americans' with a hyphen before it. We are Americans pure and simple (renewed applause), and we have a right to demand that the other people whose stocks go to compose our great nation, like ourselves, shall cease to be aught else and shall become Americans. (Cries of 'Hear! Hear!' and applause.)...." At the time of this speech, 37-year-old Theodore Roosevelt was President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners. Covers are soiled, stained and worn. Worn at spine. Covers' corners are creased. Signature page slightly soiled. Internally sound.

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